New Delhi: There seems to be no end to the political war over Malda in West Bengal. A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation is set to meet Union Home Minister President Pranab Mukherjee and Rajnath Singh to apprise them of the law and order situation in the state, seeking swift action.
This comes after a BJP delegation to Malda was turned away at the railway station.
The BJP has said that the violence in Malda was not a communal incident but a planned attack whose perpetrators are being backed by the Trinamool Congress.
On January 3, a mob set the Kaliachak police station and several vehicles on fire in protest against a hate speech by a right-wing leader. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the violence was nothing more than a localised problem and claimed that the state government was taking appropriate action.
TMC accused the BJP of spreading communal venom ahead of the state polls this year.
Reacting to the incident, BJP's Sidharth Nath Singh had accused Mamata Banerjee of playing "dirtiest vote bank politics in Malda and Bengal".
"The greatest threat of votebank politics is national security...That is why we have decided to go the Home Minister and the President and appraise them of the situation for appropriate action," he said.
Bhupender Yadav, a member of the BJP fact finding team for Malda, had said, "Law and order has complete failed in West Bengal. The CM did not go there after a week."
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